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WA performance audits: Beyond gotcha?
Washington State’s bold embrace of performance audits of state and local governments has drawn a mixed review from GOVERNING magazine. The Legislature adopted a performance audit law in 2005, and it was soon expanded by the voters that fall, via Tim Eyman’s Initiative 900. The state has long done financial audits, tracking how public dollars are ... MORE »
Washington State’s bold embrace of performance audits of state and local governments has drawn a mixed review from GOVERNING magazine. The Legislature adopted a performance audit law in 2005, and it was soon expanded by the voters that fall, via Tim Eyman’s Initiative 900. The state has long done financial audits, tracking how public dollars are ... MORE »
Didyaknow…?
… it took 24 people to carry the 38 ft-tall holiday tree into the Capitol this morning? That’s right! The noble fir was cut down yesterday in Toutle Ridge near Mt. St. Helens on Department of Natural Resources property. The tree was brought on a large flat bed semi-truck and carried in by hand. Look closely, ... MORE »
… it took 24 people to carry the 38 ft-tall holiday tree into the Capitol this morning? That’s right! The noble fir was cut down yesterday in Toutle Ridge near Mt. St. Helens on Department of Natural Resources property. The tree was brought on a large flat bed semi-truck and carried in by hand. Look closely, ... MORE »
Literary escape? Here’s a book list for you
With the four-day Thanksgiving weekend coming up, many of you will spend time among relatives and friends, watching football and filling yourself with turkey and everything else on the table. But some of you can only do so much football, food and family. You might need a diversion, or perhaps a literary escape. Or, you might ... MORE »
With the four-day Thanksgiving weekend coming up, many of you will spend time among relatives and friends, watching football and filling yourself with turkey and everything else on the table. But some of you can only do so much football, food and family. You might need a diversion, or perhaps a literary escape. Or, you might ... MORE »
Washington’s road to women’s suffrage: 1854
Next year will mark the 100-year anniversary of women’s suffrage in Washington … something definitely worth celebrating. Leading up to the centennial, which is November 2010, we are sharing some tidbits about the fight for women’s right to vote in Washington, and how it was finally won. In 1854, Arthur Denny proposed an amendment to the first territorial ... MORE »
Next year will mark the 100-year anniversary of women’s suffrage in Washington … something definitely worth celebrating. Leading up to the centennial, which is November 2010, we are sharing some tidbits about the fight for women’s right to vote in Washington, and how it was finally won. In 1854, Arthur Denny proposed an amendment to the first territorial ... MORE »
Thurston judge OKs pause in Eyman lawsuit
Thurston County Superior Court Judge Richard Hicks has granted the state’s request to pause further proceedings in initiative activist Tim Eyman’s court challenge of the Secretary of State’s policy of releasing initiative petitions under terms of the Public Records Act. Hicks agreed with a motion brought by a senior official of the Attorney General’s Office, Deputy ... MORE »
Thurston County Superior Court Judge Richard Hicks has granted the state’s request to pause further proceedings in initiative activist Tim Eyman’s court challenge of the Secretary of State’s policy of releasing initiative petitions under terms of the Public Records Act. Hicks agreed with a motion brought by a senior official of the Attorney General’s Office, Deputy ... MORE »
This Day In Washington State History
November 24, 1971
Hijacker D.B. Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 over Washington State with $200,000 in ransom. Cooper was never found, but some ransom money was recovered in the snowy forest where he dropped.
Hijacker D.B. Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 over Washington State with $200,000 in ransom. Cooper was never found, but some ransom money was recovered in the snowy forest where he dropped.
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